Hell, there were laws that had to be passed just to let you hook a modem in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_decision http://en.wiki

Hell, there were laws that had to be passed just to let you hook a modem in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_decision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_... Before this, you could only hook in an AT&T phone into the jack, and you had to rent that from AT&T.